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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The start of a new adventure

So I’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging front these days.
Some because I don’t think about it. Some because I’m a little embarrassed
about not sticking to the Daniel Plan. Some because I don’t have much to write
about. However, yesterday I embarked (that’s a serious word, “embarked.” Makes
you know something major is about to be announced.) on a new adventure. I’m calling
it “the great smoothie experiment.” As of right now, not sure how long this experiment
will last.

Background: Meg’s been having aches and pains now for, well,
it seems like forever. We’ve moved up the chain of command, medically-speaking,
but can’t get her seen by a pediatric rheumatologist until March. So until
then, we are trying some home remedies. Her drum major coach thought getting
more greens in her diet wouldn’t hurt so we are trying some green smoothies. We
decided to try this adventure together since I need to get back to eating
better and since I get up before her, I said I’d be in charge of being Smoothie
Maker. She looked up some different recipes and we decided on one that we
thought might not taste too disgusting bad. We went to the store and
picked up our supplies.

Monday: Monday’s green smoothie was made from 1 frozen
banana, 5 frozen strawberries, 1/3 honeycrisp apple, 2 handfuls of baby
kale/baby spinach combo, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 cup of coconut wate and ½ of
a lime wedge. It blended up into a delicate green color. It tasted…okay. It
wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever tasted but I’m certainly not gonna jump out of
bed and bounce into the kitchen because I can’t WAIT to drink this smoothie!
There was a bit of a bitter taste that I figure came from the lime rind.
Apparently I was supposed to peel the lime, but that bit of info didn’t get
communicated to me. One problem we ran into was that Meg looked up the recipe
but didn’t forward the link to me, so I kinda put it together based on our
conversation. Got a laugh out of Meg when we figured out what happened.
However, it did keep me pretty full. I had a handful of almonds mid-morning,
but that was more because I had the munchies and was trying to keep myself away
from the chocolate jar.

Tuesday: Found out that Meg isn’t a big fan of the banana.
Who knew?! So this morning I attempted a non-banana smoothie. Today’s
not-so-green smoothie was made up of 2 handfuls of baby kale/baby spinach, 5
frozen strawberries, about a ½ cup of frozen blueberries, 1 scoop of protein
powder and 1 cup of coconut water. It blended into a pretty purple color. It
was, well, tart. I think I needed some apple or something in there to help it
out. Again, not the worst thing in the world, but I won’t make it again,
especially since I was hungry by 8:30. L

I’ve been looking up smoothie recipes and think I’ll add
chia seed or flax to tomorrow’s smoothie to see if I can get to lunch without being
hungry.